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Hello, I entered the six digit code they sent me.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Hey, Nvidia, hey, hey, Nvidia, you can't do that.

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Nvidia is facing a lawsuit after a 404 media report

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found that Nvidia was illegally scraping videos

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from YouTube and Netflix, Vimeo, et cetera.

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They were scraping these videos

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to train their AI product that they're selling for money.

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Now I wanna be clear, I wanna be super, super, super clear.

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That's theft.

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Nvidia directed their employees to hide their IP addresses,

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to sneak past the defenses that YouTube has set up

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to prevent mass scraping of data.

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They were specifically told to set up machines in the cloud

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and change the machines pretty frequently

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to have different IP addresses so that they wouldn't get caught.

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When employees were like, hey, that's unethical and illegal,

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they were told to shut up

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because this was a quote, executive decision.

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Quite literally, somebody at the top was like,

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I don't care about the law, do it anyway.

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404 media got ahold of internal documents and chats

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and emails and whatnot that just showed they were doing this

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to train their AI and sell it.

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And what is Nvidia's response?

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Well, first they were like, well, we respect creators.

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Why you fucking don't?

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You're already out the gate, come on now.

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We respect creators, get that.

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They go on to say that anyone can learn facts

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from the internet and that this is just, this is fine.

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This is encouraged.

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It's just taking what already exists

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and making new derivative works.

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This argument is often thrown around by tech bros

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who are super pro AI and want to just ignore all of reality,

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regardless of your opinions on copyright.

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You can totally believe that copyright shouldn't exist.

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And also it's the law.

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They love to pose it as this cute little robot

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discovered YouTube and was like,

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oh, I can learn so much from this

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and grow as an artificial intelligence.

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That's not what's happening.

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What's happening is an executive said,

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I'm making a decision, break the law

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and set up safeguards to prevent us from being caught

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as we steal a unfathomable amount of data.

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This is like quite literally the largest art theft in history.

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And they're just like, oh, no, it's okay.

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It's fine, don't ask questions.

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This is a Fortune 500 company.

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This isn't some scrappy little group

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that has the world against them.

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They are a trillion dollar company.

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Multiple trillions, whatever.

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They're huge.

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They can afford to pay.

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Because again, they're not making derivative works.

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They're selling a product

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that was built using stolen data.

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This would be like if a restaurant was like,

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you know what?

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We respect farmers.

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But we have a right to use their crops

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in any way we see fit.

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While that company is sending their employees

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disguised as farm hands to the farm

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to steal billions of dollars worth of fruit,

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this metaphor is falling apart.

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But the point still stands,

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if you made something and you put it online,

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it's not just a free thing that exists.

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Why do you think we have to pay subscriptions for things?

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It's to license them, you know?

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So that the artists get paid?

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Well, the artists aren't getting paid.

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At least not with Spotify at all.

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This is not the only one of these lawsuits

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that's happening right now.

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OpenAI is also being hit with the same lawsuit

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from the same person.

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And also, to be clear,

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this is not even in a lawsuit with a creator saying,

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I've been wrong and I deserve compensation.

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This is a person saying,

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these companies are just flagrantly breaking the law.

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This is illegal enrichment.

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They cannot do this.

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And yet, they are.

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Whereas if a normal person stole billions of dollars worth

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of copyrighted material,

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they'd be facing life in prison.

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But when a Fortune 500 company does it,

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they get invited to Congress

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to help craft laws around AI.

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Your honor, I made an executive decision.

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I am faultless now.

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For real though, it's really insulting

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as a person who puts in effort to make content and upload it

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and is trying to make my way in this space

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to know that someone can just slurp up my data,

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use it to enrich themselves against my will

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when I should have legal protections.

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And then there's people who are like,

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well, that's their right when it's not.

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Cause that's not how any of this works.

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It's pretty shitty.

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Moving on.

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We are almost a year into the United States

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and Israel's nonstop siege on Gaza.

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The Associated Press published a simple article

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with a rundown of just the death stats around all of this.

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The official toll has crossed 40,000 souls.

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Of those, over 10,000 of those souls

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came from children and literal babies.

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Approximately 2% of the population of Gaza

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has been wiped off the face of the planet

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since the beginning of these attacks funded by the US.

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To put that in perspective,

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if this was happening to America,

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this would be a hostile nation slaughtering 7 million people

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targeting hospitals, schools, refugee camps,

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and basically everywhere that when I was a kid,

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I was told like, oh no, these are safe spaces.

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They don't, they're not gonna ever be targeted

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because that would be just an egregious affront to humanity.

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I literally remember sitting in my school when 9-11 happened

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and my teachers tried to calm us down

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by saying, don't worry, they would never target a school.

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Don't fear those terrorists

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because hitting a school is unconscionable.

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Now pay your taxes, because Lockheed needs a payday.

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There are ongoing murmurings of a potential ceasefire.

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This is not the first potential ceasefire,

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and it's not the first time that they've said

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that they're close to a deal.

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And while these talks are happening,

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Israel is still airstriking Gaza.

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So I don't, I want, I want to have hopes.

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I don't, I want to.

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If you have the means to give back,

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I've chosen a family in Gaza to sponsor.

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You can throw some money at their GoFundMe.

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They're still pretty far away from their target.

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So anything would help.

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You can find that link where you would expect

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to find links on this platform.

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Do you love Google?

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You better love Google.

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Google is backtracking after publishing a set of rules

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for their Team Pixel program.

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That said that if you show favoritism

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to any other device besides a Pixel, you're out.

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All right, what does any of that mean?

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Turns out Google has this program called Team Pixel,

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which is essentially a marketing program

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where they work with creators,

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they give the creator a Pixel phone and say, show this off.

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A recently published form had some concerning wording in it

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that sent shocks throughout the content o-sphere

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and scared a bunch of reviewers into thinking

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that they might be booted out of Google's good graces.

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That's fun to say, Google's good graces, that's fun.

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Here's a quote from the form that people had to agree to,

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quote, by opting into this program.

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Do you acknowledge that you are expected to feature

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the Google Pixel device in place

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of any competitor mobile devices?

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Please note that if it appears other brands

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are being preferred over the Pixel,

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we will need to cease the relationship

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between the brand and the creator.

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Only their form didn't deliver it as cool as I did.

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Anyway, upon seeing this, people were like, whoa, okay,

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hold on, so what does that mean?

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What are the rules around that?

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If I say that I like this other phone,

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am I just not allowed to work with Google

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on marketing stuff?

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But don't worry, a Google spokesperson said the thing.

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They said, we missed the mark.

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God, it sure seems like a lot of companies

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are missing the mark these days.

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Can someone make the mark bigger?

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I don't understand, I truly don't.

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Like just don't do dumb bullshit.

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If you need someone to tell you

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if something is dumb bullshit or not,

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I will happily be on your payroll.

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Just throw some money at me and ask me

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if something is dumb.

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I will help you.

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You'll have so fewer headaches and products.

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Cause I'm just gonna say it up and dump.

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This episode of Stuff Keeps Happening

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is still sponsored by me.

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It's just kind of me out here.

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If you wanna help me keep doing this,

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I would love your support.

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One of the best ways to chip in

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is to check out my Patreon.

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Anything helps.

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and just variety uploads.

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On top of that, I am now building a tabletop

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role-playing game called Priscenium.

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I love making things for you.

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And I wanna keep doing it.

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Your support helps me make that happen.

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So thank you for being here.

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Thank you for your support.

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And lightning round.

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Twitter has closed their offices in Brazil

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after a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice was like,

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hey, y'all, there's a lot of false information

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on your platform, especially about our former

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super right-wing leader, Bolsonaro.

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So you gotta take that down.

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To which Twitter said, no,

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they're now closing their offices.

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As a reminder, this is performative.

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You can't say the word cisgender on Twitter.

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It is not about free speech.

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It is not about free speech.

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Mars and Jupiter are getting really cute with it.

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And they're holding hands this week.

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They're positioned in the sky really close to each other.

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This doesn't happen very often.

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It's adorable.

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It's adorable.

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What is up with chess?

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Last week, I talked about a woman who got in trouble

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for trying to poison her opponent in chess.

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And now another chess player has been outed as a creep,

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sending sex and images and whatnot to women

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and children in the chess world.

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And let's not forget the anal beads thing.

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The cheating with anal beads thing

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from like a couple of years ago.

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Chess is wild, y'all.

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I'm in the wrong field.

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The voice actress for Misty on the Pokemon anime

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has unfortunately passed away due to breast cancer

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at the age of 55.

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Fuck cancer.

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And finally for today,

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after a 12-year long battle,

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Kim.com, creator of Mega Upload,

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is going to be extradited to the US,

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facing, wouldn't you know it,

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a bunch of copyright charges.

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Man, he should have gotten in video lawyers.

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If you're not familiar, Kim.com,

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yes, quite literally changed his last name to.com.

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And he's been on the run for a while.

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He also once put out a music video about Mega Upload

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that has just the wildest cast of cameos imaginable.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode

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of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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